Can purchased content be resold?

Over the last 10 years I have purchased software and content for thousands of dollars both here at DAZ and at other stores. Now I have completely lost interest in rendering, and was wondering if I am allowed to sell all this stuff, for example on Ebay. Or easier still, can I simply sell my store accounts complete with saved downloads?

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You would have to contact DAZ regarding the transfer of licenses for the software. Last time I asked about a transfer of license was back in the days of Curious Labs and they made it very plain that my bosses could transfer aka give me the license for P4 but they could not sell it to me.

As for content, no, I don't think so. I think that falls under the heading of redistribution and perhaps even copyright infringement. Most EULA's specify that you are purchasing the right to use the product. You don't actually own the product.

Over the last 10 years I have purchased software and content for thousands of dollars both here at DAZ and at other stores. Now I have completely lost interest in rendering, and was wondering if I am allowed to sell all this stuff, for example on Ebay. Or easier still, can I simply sell my store accounts complete with saved downloads?

In Europe it has recently become legal to resell digital content regardless what the EULA says, so if you're located there it shouldn't be a problem.

Over the last 10 years I have purchased software and content for thousands of dollars both here at DAZ and at other stores. Now I have completely lost interest in rendering, and was wondering if I am allowed to sell all this stuff, for example on Ebay. Or easier still, can I simply sell my store accounts complete with saved downloads?

In Europe it has recently become legal to resell digital content regardless what the EULA says, so if you're located there it shouldn't be a problem.

That is only true for a software licence. 3D content is not a computer program, it is a user file. The law in Europe refers only to computer software.

Over the last 10 years I have purchased software and content for thousands of dollars both here at DAZ and at other stores. Now I have completely lost interest in rendering, and was wondering if I am allowed to sell all this stuff, for example on Ebay. Or easier still, can I simply sell my store accounts complete with saved downloads?

In Europe it has recently become legal to resell digital content regardless what the EULA says, so if you're located there it shouldn't be a problem.

That is only true for a software licence. 3D content is not a computer program, it is a user file. The law in Europe refers only to computer software.

no no, it's for every digital file.
you can resell everything here if you have proof of owner ship and bills....
it's great of use :)
if you would stop your hobby... for something else.
i don't think ebay is the right place to sell this.

UsedSoft's business model hinges completely on reselling used packages or legally obtained license keys for them.

This whole thing hangs on the part in the quote I've highlighted, this ruling only counts for software with a license key, AKA serial number, it doesn't count for software your "leasing" from a company. So while you could resell DS and any plugins you might have bought, it stops you from selling any content you've bought as without a license key you don't actually own it, DAZ/Rendo etc and the vender's are the owners, you just have an indefinite lease allowing you to use it.

UsedSoft's business model hinges completely on reselling used packages or legally obtained license keys for them.

This whole thing hangs on the part in the quote I've highlighted, this ruling only counts for software with a license key, AKA serial number, it doesn't count for software your "leasing" from a company. So while you could resell DS and any plugins you might have bought, it stops you from selling any content you've bought as without a license key you don't actually own it, DAZ/Rendo etc and the vender's are the owners, you just have an indefinite lease allowing you to use it.

The whole point of the EC judgement is you can sell the lease, license keys are just another form of lease/contract.

According to UK solicitors Goodwin Proctor:
"For Directive 2009/24 to apply, the first sale must occur within the European Union and the exhaustion right only applies within the European Union" (my emphasis). I don't think a purchase from DAZ counts as a sale occurring within the EU (for customers from the EU it is an import—we do not pay VAT on it, for one thing).

This ruling does specifically apply to computer programs. I think it's debatable as to whether the 3D assets such as those sold by DAZ are computer programs and I think this is something a court will have to decide, so I would not be attempting to sell 3D content (if, say, I had bought it in the EU) just yet.

Another UK law firm, Charles Russell, gives the opinion that "[t]he principles involved may well extend to other products which can be sold digitally, such as films, music and books" (my emphasis) so I think we will be looking at more court cases before the legality of re-selling downloaded content other than computer programs is established.

UsedSoft's business model hinges completely on reselling used packages or legally obtained license keys for them.

This whole thing hangs on the part in the quote I've highlighted, this ruling only counts for software with a license key, AKA serial number, it doesn't count for software your "leasing" from a company. So while you could resell DS and any plugins you might have bought, it stops you from selling any content you've bought as without a license key you don't actually own it, DAZ/Rendo etc and the vender's are the owners, you just have an indefinite lease allowing you to use it.

The whole point of the EC judgement is you can sell the lease, license keys are just another form of lease/contract.

I agree with DWG. We do not lease 3D models (as an example) from DAZ. It's clearly a sale (of a licence). As Charles Russell say, the ruling applies "where that software is made available to a customer for an unlimited period for a single up front licensee fee".

Ways to avoid such a "sale" would be to "make licences time limited or only available in return for regular smaller payments" or by "making software available as a cloud service (i.e. not a licence)".

Poser 7 when I bought it had a license like a book, you can pass it on to another but it can only installed on one computer at any given time.
Daz studio and other Daz software allows multiple installs whithin the same household.
for me the content is all on the one external drive with zips and installers scattered throughout various dongles and drives and if I wish to use my laptop instead of my desktop on VERY rare occasions, I simply use that drive.
Obviously I CAN pass my copy of Poser 7 to another if I completely unistall it according to the license but content is certainly a very grey area and if DS4 ceases to be free to buy whether or not one can sell the program is questionable under the EULA.

Some of my content came on magazine discs, I have wondered if I pass those discs to another and cease to use that content which does not appear in my order history if it is legal, indeed I actually rebought some of it when on sale and in the case of some figures, free in the hope that if my brother ever showed an interest in 3D, he could have those discs and an included copy of DS3 with its own serial, sofar though a moot point as not in the least interested!

Also with the book "figures, Characters and Avatars, have wondered if I unistall and cease to use the content and programs on the disc, it can be passed on, again sofar not likely but I did too grab a bit of the content on that seperately on sale (and I mean very cheap in a prev platinium sale, namely V4 &M4; complete) mostly so I could have it in my order history but in theory enabling me to pass the book to my brother if I uninstall any other content from it, ie the pad and other stuff.

The ruling may hold true for software purchased and sold within the EU but neither DAZ nor SMS are based in the EU.

Where the claim that it can be sold in the EU fails is the fact that the original purchase is made in the US.

As for DAZ content, just because it has an installer doesn't make it software. It is not an independent program. It cannot do anything without either DS or Poser.

As far as selling software and content, in order to make it marketable, the seller would have to undercut the original owners.

Not to mention, how would anyone know if someone selling DAZ content sell it once or a dozen times?

Where is this any different from the torrent and other sites that offer content?

How can anyone know if you exceed the speed limit or dodge your taxes? It's illegal, and so is selling the same software license twice, or not uninstalling sold content from your own computer. Read the link posted earlier.

According to UK solicitors Goodwin Proctor:
"For Directive 2009/24 to apply, the first sale must occur within the European Union and the exhaustion right only applies within the European Union" (my emphasis). I don't think a purchase from DAZ counts as a sale occurring within the EU (for customers from the EU it is an import—we do not pay VAT on it, for one thing).

But Oracle, whose software the trial was about, is a US company? I suppose that means that it's about where the software is bought or downloaded (European Oracle reseller or division presumably), and not who produces it.

I think it's unethical to "sell" your purchased digital content because it's far too easy to sell it to 2 people, or ten, or a thousand. All it would take is a few a-holes doing such a thing to force content creators to lock their files down so that it was either too complicated or too expensive for most of us to continue.

I think it's unethical to "sell" your purchased digital content because it's far too easy to sell it to 2 people, or ten, or a thousand. All it would take is a few a-holes doing such a thing to force content creators to lock their files down so that it was either too complicated or too expensive for most of us to continue.

This is where it being illegal to do so. If I wanted to I could sell what I have purchased and no one would be any the wiser, but it would be illegal, so I am not going to do that.

If I had the right to sell the items one time and then was required to delete the items, then that is what I would do.

The point I am making is there are people who are going to sell things illegally anyway, so what difference does it make.